Shaping Town is located in the southwest of Lechang City, belonging to the typical limestone poor mountainous area in the north of Guangdong Province, adjoining Yunyan Town and Xiushui Town in this city and Bridge Town and Hongyun Town in Liyuan Yao Autonomous County, respectively, as well as Guanxi Township, Baishaxuwei Township, and Mangshan Mountain Nature Reserve in Yizhang County, Hunan Province. The territory is characterized by high mountains and steep slopes with dense limestone rocks, forming the natural conditions of the most serious water shortage. Here, more mountains, less land, more rocks, less arable land, more caves, less water, more than 1,000 meters above sea level, there are 12 peaks, known as "seven parts of the stone three parts of the soil, water is expensive as oil", "three days do not rain to see the drought, ten days do not rain, no water to drink," said the long-term drought! Lack of water, the living environment is extremely poor, successive generations of Shaping people rely only on the stone nooks and crannies in the planting of corn to sustain their livelihoods, slow economic development, is the poorest townships in Guangdong Province, "the four gold steel" one.